Sunday Show Ratings: July 29

The NBC Sunday public affairs show was preempted last week due to NBC Sports’ broadcast of the Open Championship final round, but with its across-the-board win on July 29, it has defeated the competition across the board for 8 consecutive months, and exclusively in the A25-54 demo for 10 consecutive months.

Yet despite all of those accolades, MTP was -7 percent in total viewers and -21 percent among adults 25-54 vs. the comparable Sunday in 2017 (July 30). As you’ll see, all of the Sunday politics show are losing a lot of traction among younger news viewers this year compared to last.

Anchored by Martha Raddatz on July 29, ABC’s This Week finished No. 2 both among total viewers and in the key A25-54 demo. The ABC public affairs program beat rival CBS Face the Nation in both total viewers (+161,000) and Adults 25-54 (+184,000), posting its largest news demo lead over CBS in 3 months – since 4/22/18. It’s also beating FTN in the demo for the 3rd season in a row.

That said, the broadcast posted year-over-year audience declines this past week of -2 percent in total viewers, and -19 percent among adults 25-54.

No nice way to put it: Face the Nation is struggling in 2018. The July 29th broadcast was particularly rough, -24 percent in total viewers, and -42 percent among adults 25-54 vs. the July 30, 2017 broadcast. FTN finished No. 3 across the board.

As was the case with FTN, Fox News Sunday had a rough week relative to last year as well. The broadcast was -17 percent in total viewers and -36 percent among adults 25-54 vs. July 30, 2017. The program’s trio of cable replays delivered nearly 2.3 million total viewers and 411,000 demo viewers. Combined with the FOX first-run broadcast, that’s 3.4 million total viewers and 695,000 demo viewers on July 29, 2018.

The numbers for July 29:

Network

Program

Total Viewers

A25-54

NBC

Meet The Press

2,846,000

699,000

ABC

This Week

2,633,000

637,000

CBS

Face the Nation(1/2 hr)

2,472,000

453,000

FOX

Fox News Sunday

1,136,000

284,000

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI (Total Viewers and Adults 25-54); Live + SD for 7/29/18, and 7/30/17 or as dated. Season-to-Date: Most Current: 2017-2018 Season (9/25/17 – 7/29/18) and 2016-2017 Season (9/19/16 – 7/30/18). Averages based on regular telecasts.